| 单词 | eccentricity |
| 释义 | eccentricity (once / 1737 pages) 1n 2n Eccentricity is strange, out-of-the-ordinary, sometimes weirdly attractive behavior or dress. Sleeping with your boots on is pretty normal if you're a cowboy, but leaving them on for bedtime in your city apartment, that shows some eccentricity. Eccentricity goes back to the Greek ekkentros, meaning "off center," and when you describe people as being a little "off," you might be talking about their eccentricity or behavior that's a bit abnormal. An eccentricity might be some really small character trait, like eating all of the green food on your plate first, or a large and very obvious characteristic, as when you ride a donkey to your suburban school instead of taking the bus. WORD FAMILYeccentricity: eccentricities+/eccentric: eccentrically, eccentricity, eccentricly, eccentrics USAGE EXAMPLES“It’s about how we sometimes forgive the lunatic behaviour of artists and call it “eccentricity”. The Guardian(Jan 01, 2017) One reason they weren’t is one of those eccentricities of football played among the really young. Washington Post(Dec 27, 2016) Aunty Ifeoma shook her head as if the way Papa felt were just a minor eccentricity. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Purple Hibiscus(2003) 1 n strange and unconventional behavior 2Hypo|Hyper oddity, oddness eccentricity that is not easily explained strangeness, unfamiliarity unusualness as a consequence of not being well known 1n a circularity that has a different center or deviates from a circular path Ant|Hyper concentricity the quality of having the same center (as circles inside one another) circularity, disk shape the roundness of a 2-dimensional figure 2n (geometry) a ratio describing the shape of a conic section; the ratio of the distance between the foci to the length of the major axis a circle is an ellipse with zero eccentricity Hyper ratio the relative magnitudes of two quantities (usually expressed as a quotient) |
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